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What does the GameStop buying spree tell us?
Villanova School of Business Assistant Professor of the Practice Keith Wright was in the chat rooms when individual investors were discussing pumping up the GameStop ...
IU Kelley School finance expert available to discuss GameStop, Robinhood
Charles Trzcinka, the James and Virginia Cozad Chair of Finance at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business and an expert on financial markets and ...
New research finds which companies’ stocks are more “immune” to the pandemic
Stock price-drops were milder among companies with more cash, less debt, and larger profits; those with less exposure to COVID-19 through global supply chains and ...
How hedge funds are using satellite images to beat Wall Street
While Assoc. Prof. Panos Patatoukas was discussing Walmart in his Financial Information Analysis course last year, a student brought up the story of how company ...
Investor conferences and analyst advantage
In a research paper, T. Clifton Green, associate professor of finance and doctoral area coordinator, and coauthors Russell Jame 10PhD (U of Kentucky), Stanimir Markov (...

Increased trading activity and declining returns
Improved trading technologies are changing the markets, facilitating the boom in algorithmic trading and the growth of hedge funds. Liquidity and trading volume continue to ...
Are alternative investments right for the average person?
Given the risk, alternative investments were once considered only appropriate for the affluent and institutional investors. However, investment firms increasingly are offering alternative investment products, ...
Another Big Short or Better Off? 10 Years Later – Is there Another Financial Crisis Looming?
It was 10 years ago Wednesday that the world changed for just about everyone. It was on that afternoon when BNP Paribas announced it was ceasing ...